, 1887-07-14

an get out there In pleasant weather.
One unusual feature about the park is,
that a chair company has the privilege of
putting chairs all along the walks, and making
the unsuspecting stranger pay a penny, or
keep walking like a sentinel on duty.
There is a history connected with Hyde
Park, which the reader may find in most
guide books, or for sale at news stands.
Speaking of news stands reminds me that
London is virtually without a Sunday news
paper, and if some enterprising American
with money to lose, until he can teach the
people more advanced ideas, will invest it in
that sort of property he will be rich before
he dies, if he isn't too old when he begins.
talked with my landlady about hired
girls, and l find that a hired girl is a hired
girl pretty much wherever you find her.
The reliable ones can always find work with
good pay, but they are not all reliable,
though the average in England is higher than
elsewhere. One very pretty one l know gets
S5 a year and found, but she doesn't do the
cooking. don't believe our American style
OF all around hired girl prevails in England.
The girls usually call themselves "slavies,n
and they are very respectful, and their man
ners are good. Ten to twelve pounds a year
and found is considered very good pay, and
some L talked to about coming to America
did not seem fattered by the inducements l
held out. AS a rule they know very little
besides their business and their home gossip.
One at my lodgings, not more than a mile
from st Paups, saw a picture of the cathe-
dral which 1 had bought, and she not only
did not recognize it, but had never heard of
1t until l told her. She said she had only
lived in London q few years and was not ac-
q~uainted all over. In the same bouse thew
burned manufactured gas in the CRATES, as
we use the natural variety in America, and
not being posted l asked the house girl where
1t came from.
Out of the meter, miss" said she, and that
was all she did say.
Buffalo Bill is the biggest man In England
at the present writing, and the bows on the
street chase him around just as they do in
America. he is also the companion of the
hugh and mighty, and, if l am a judge of
races, ID. Is. is as square a man as the best of
them. The queen, the prince, and all the
family have been out to see the Wild West
show, and they have publicly expressed their
appreciation of it This business of the
queen and prince going to shows, opening ex-
hloitions, ETC., etc, has given the Radical
papers a fine chance to make sarcastic re-
marks with reference to the royal family us
excellent advertising mediums. They are
quite right, too, l think, and after l had read.
day after day, of the queen opening this
thing, the prince that, the princess the other,
and another prince or princess something
else, l came to the conclusion that the royal
family should be called the national cork.
screw, and hung up in a public place easy of
access and no charge for corkage.
Dickey reminds me at this point that it is
time to give the people a rest and go out with
her to buy n pair Of gloves. Gloves are so
cheap in London you want to buy a pair
every day just because they are cheap.
Have You written up any of the sightsln
said she.
"a good many" said l.
The tower, museums, palaces, bridges and
all that" said she.
Not one" said 1.
why not9" said she, in surprise.
'They are guide book sights" said l, land
l am not in the guide book line"
"Oh" said she, turning up an already some
what retrousse nasal organ; 'you want to
be considered a great original, do you2 Well,
go on; am seeing it all as we go along, and
don't want to read your letters"
you don't nave to-" said 1, and quit.
MARY .JANE